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(W) Bill Griffith (A) Ernie Bushmiller
From Bill Griffith, creator of
Zippy the Pinhead, comes
Three Rocks, a biography of cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller, creator of the iconic comic strip Nancy. But this graphic novel is about more than a single comic book artist. It is the story of this American art form, tracing its inception in 1895 with
The Yellow Kid, the creation of
Nancy in 1933, and all the strips that followed, including
Peanuts and
The Far Side. When Bushmiller died in 1982,
Nancy was running in almost 900 daily newspapers-a number few syndicated cartoonists ever achieve. The title
Three Rocks refers to the trope of three hemispherical rocks often seen in a Bushmiller landscape-just enough to communicate environment to the reader. This distillation is exemplary of the iconic, diagrammatic look of
Nancy, a comic strip about the nature of what it means to be a comic strip-the perfect avatar for Griffith to expand upon his philosophy of creating comics.
In Shops: Nov 13, 2024
SRP: $24.99
